Programs/Content
Pharma fees to ‘Infinite Mind’ doctor call attention to conflict-of-interest issues
Bill Lichtenstein, executive producer of pubradio’s The Infinite Mind, got a phone call Nov. 20 from a New York Times reporter with troubling information: the program’s ...Surge of channels, people meter chaos depress PBS ratings
There is no shortage of factors to explain why public TV ratings have kept sliding. For one, the proportion of viewers with ...Schiller hit ‘every point’ on NPR’s c.e.o. wish list
NPR’s next president made one giant leap in the news business two years ago when she moved from long-form documentary production into ...Producer’s own mentor: first in a series
Lindsey is embarking on a vast project to collect elders’ knowledge from around the world — their methods of predicting future events, ...Vocalo.org shakes up Chicago airwaves with unconventional radio format
The afternoon team at Chicago’s newest noncommercial radio station is on the air, talking crime and punishment. Most public radio shows would ...Hurricane Ike: In storm, stations run on ‘adrenaline and altruism’
As Hurricane Ike swirled toward the Texas coast on Friday, Sept. 12, more than 20 staffers of HoustonPBS and KUHF-FM hunkered down ...Here I am, your special PBS Kids Island (come to me, come to me)
PBS Kids Island, an online amusement park located on the Raising Readers website (www.readytolearnreading.org), offers learning games created by producers of Super Why!, ...What can come of NPR’s release of an API giving access to its story database?
Posted in Current‘s former online forum, DirectCurrent, by moderator Steve Behrens on July 17, 2008 at 12:28pm Last year, public radio’s Digital Distribution ...Observing subprime ‘tsunami,’ CPB commissions a response
Pagedale’s story is part of a multiplatform project created by KETC in St. Louis, launched July 1 in partnership with CPB, to ...CPB funds three Public Radio Talent Quest finalists to develop pilots
Three finalists in the Public Radio Talent Quest won CPB research-and-development grants totaling $800,000 to refine and develop pilots they conceived and ...Raising Readers initiative: Ready to Learn goes for depth instead of breadth
In 20 cities across the country, stations are organizing Super Why! reading camps, hosting book-centric sporting events and concerts and handing out Super Why! and WordWorld DVDs ...50 miles from epicenter
It was purely by chance that a team of veteran NPR journalists was working in Chengdu, the capital of China’s Sichuan province, ...KCET to rep BBC newscast, WLIW creating competitor
The BBC has signed a new distributor for the nightly half-hour BBC World News newscast for public TV stations — KCET in Los Angeles. ...Why & How: ‘Unnatural Causes’
In this Q&A, content creators talk with Current about why they decided to pursue a project and how they produced it. What: Unnatural Causes: Is ...Stern’s latest credit: completing the search for NPR’s future home
In 2012, when NPR moves to its recently acquired headquarters site seven blocks east of its present home, it will have much ...
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